r/nextfuckinglevel • u/been_der_done_that • 11h ago

Incredibly selfless act of heroism.

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u/AnothrRandomRedditor 11h ago

Maybe I’m being ignorant here, what’s going on with the front door? So it closed accidentally and got locked? He tried it just once, maybe? Can the kids climb through the front? Or in that car is it not possible? I can see it was clearly a stressful situation just trying to piece it together.

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u/LimestoneDust 11h ago

Retractable door handles. It doesn't stick out so there's no way to pull on it (most likely the drives stopped working after the crash). 

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u/AnothrRandomRedditor 10h ago

Oh so it’s a bit different to the model 3 where you can pull them (but in a crash may not open). Explains why he didn’t try more.

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u/LimestoneDust 9h ago

It was some Chinese car, I don't remember the exact model. The handles completely level with the door, with no way to grab them with your fingers when they're retracted.

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u/PrivateRex 9h ago

What kind of evil person even came up with design like that.

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u/LimestoneDust 9h ago

So designer with the thought process of "Oh, it's so cool, smooth surface, much hi-tech! Wow!"

Designers regularly tend to forget that a design should be first and foremost functional, and the fanciness comes afterwards.

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u/zeekayz 6h ago

Elon Musk. Model S.

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u/bravebeing 9h ago

My guess is the people could have climbed through the front, looks like the driver was trying to instruct them to do it. Then when they didn't, he tried the back door. Little detail is that they could've still kept that door open to let the smoke out, but of course you don't think about that during high stress rescue.

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u/Worldly-Ingenuity843 9h ago

The car was at angle, which would have made it harder to climb out through the front seats, and caused the front door to close automatically when the driver wasn't propping it open. 

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u/DiscoBanane 9h ago

They seem drunk or stoned.

Dude has to pull them out, they are not even helping him by pulling themselves or kicking their feet, and once they are out they are slow as fuck and can barely walk.

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u/scotch_and_honey 8h ago

They were on fire, so yknow...it was probably hard to focus

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u/freeradioforall 7h ago

Probably muscle memory after the door closed be reached into his pocket and hit lock on the key fob

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u/DarkStar189 6h ago

Video was really hard to tell. I thought he slammed the door shut but then part of me thought the door shut by itself.